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npHE Society, with its many valuable volumes 
and manuscripts, is constantly receiving addi- 
tions to its Library and Collection Department. 
Among those that are of special importance to the 
public may be mentioned : — 

Historical Publications of many States and towns. 

Rare books and manuscripts. 

A rare Basket Bible (illustrated). 

The Hall Collection of papers, etc. 

Autographs of many distinguished persons.- 

Martha Washington Invitation, 1776. 

Letter from Governor Dudley, 1702. 

Rare specimens of Continental money. 

Many old newspapers and prints. 

Portraits of Lydia Maria Childs by Alexander. 
Turell Tufts. Samuel Adams, and others. 

Many articles connected with Medford's ship- 
building industry. Full-rigged ship-models, tools 
and documents. 

The Brooks Collection of Indian Relics, — skulls, 
bones, wampum. Various Indian tools, morters, 
arrowheads, etc 

The Chandler Collection of Civil War Relics, 
many hundred pieces, including play bill, Ford's 
Theatre, night of assassination of President Lincoln, 
1865. 

Lydia Maria Childs Collection, books, letters, etc. 

Cases of many quaint and curious relics. Gov- 
ernor Brooks's training pants, Israel Putnam's 
purse, Washington pitcher, and old daguerreotypes'. 



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Officers for the year ending March, i^O-f 



President 
David H. Brown 

Vice- Presidents 

rosewell B. Lawrence 
Charles H. Loomis 
William Cushing Wait 
Benjamin P. Hollis 

Treasurer 
Benjamin F. Fenton 

Recording Secretary 
Herbert A. Weitz 

Corresponding Secretary 
George S. t. Fuller 

Librarian and Curator 
miss Agnes w. Lincoln 






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Officers for the year ending March, icjO-/. 



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David H. Brown 



Vice-Presidents 

ROSEWELL B. LAWRENCE 

Charles H. Loomis 
William Cushing wait 
Benjamin P. Hollis 



Treasurer 

Benjamin F. fenton 

Recording Secretary 
Herbert a. Weitz 



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*"pHE Society, with its many valuable volumes 
and manuscripts, is constantly receiving addi- 
tions to its Library and Collection Department. 
Among those that are of special importance to the 
public may be mentioned : — 

Historical Publications of many States and towns. 

Rare books and manuscripts. 

A rare Basket Bible (illustrated). 

The Hall Collection of papers, etc. 

Autographs of many distinguished persons.- 

Martha Washington Invitation, 1776. 

Letter from Governor Dudley, 1702. 

Rare specimens of Continental money. 

Many old newspapers and prints. 

Portraits of Lydia Maria Childs by Alexander. 
Turell Tufts. Samuel Adams, and others. 

Many articles connected with Medford's ship- 
building industry. Full-rigged ship-models, tools 
and documents. 

The Brooks Collection of Indian Relics, — skulls, 
bones, wampum. Various Indian tools, morters, 
arrowheads, etc 

The Chandler Collection of Civil War Relics, 
many hundred pieces, including play bill, Ford's 
Theatre, night of assassination of President Lincoln, 
1865. 

Lydia Maria Childs Collection, books, letters, etc. 

Cases of many quaint and curious relics. Gov- 
ernor Brooks's training pants, Israel Putnam's 
purse, Washington pitcher, and old daguerreotypes'. 




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THE Medford Historical Society was incorporated 
under Massachusetts laws, May 22, 1896. The 
objects of the Society are " To collect, preserve, and 
disseminate the local and general history of Medford, 
and the genealogy of Medford families ; to make 
antiquarian collections ; to collect books of general 
history, genealogy, and biography ; and to prepare, 
or cause to be prepared, from time to time such 
papers and records relating to these subjects as may 
be of general interest to the members." 

The Society entered at once upon an active and 
aggressive existence. During its first year it planned 
and carried to a successful issue a series of entertain- 
ments, conceded to be the finest ever presented to a 
Medford audience. 

The home of the Society is the old Francis House, 
corner of Ashland and Salem Streets, the birthplace 
of Lydia Maria Child. The house was purchased by 
the Society the past year. 

The present membership is about two hundred 
and seventy-five. The admission fee is two dollars, 
which also pays the annual dues for a year ; there- 
after the annual charge is one dollar. Monthly 
meetings are held from October to May, inclusive, 
at which papers on topics of local interest are read 
and discussed. Informal talks are also given on the 
first Saturday evening of the winter months. 

You are cordially invited to become a member of 
the Society and lend your aid to our work. 






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A N important feature of the Society's work is the 
"**" Historical Register, issued quarterly, and 
devoted to matters of local history. The series of 
leading articles which have been published is of 
much interest and value. As a pleasing evidence 
of the worth of the magazine, it may be mentioned 
that among the subscribers are the New York Public 
Library, the Newberry Library, Chicago, New York 
Historical Society, Princeton University, Columbia 
University, etc. 

Among the fifty or more "exchanges" may be 
noted the State libraries of Maine, New Hampshire, 
Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, Pennsyl- 
vania, Kansas, Iowa, and the National Museum, 
Stockholm, Sweden. 

Some of the more important papers which have 
been published are as follows : — 

The Schools and Schoolmasters of Colonial 

Days in Medford B. F. Morrison 

Middlesex Canal Lorin L. Dame 

Shipbuilding in Medford James A. Hervey 

The Royall House and Farm John H. Hooper 

Early Maps of Medford William Cushing Wait 

Old Ship Street Fred H. C. Woolley 

The Lawrence Light Guard Miss Helen T. Wild 

History of the following churches and early min- 
isters of Medford : 

Mystic Congregational 

Grace Episcopal 

First Universalist Society 

First Baptist 









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